In need of anger management

[thetruthteller]

Truthteller, you don't have a clue about what Tomlin "ordered" or said at halftime. A truth teller doesn't make up stuff and pass it off as truth.

I didn't say it was the truth. But it was clear that the offense stepped of the gas on what they did in the first half. And who usually makes that decision ?......The Head Coach my friend.

[bostonsteeler]

This is tough. Cause usually, 27 points with our defense and at home is more then enough. But as bad and as clueless as the Defense looked today....I still cannot believe our offensive spirit just died like that. I don't think it was Haley as much as it was Tomlin. He probably ordered Haley and the offense to NOT be as aggressive...for fear of a potential easy TO that could give the Browns extra momentum. But, going all conservative does the same thing. No. I blame the 2nd half offensive performance ALL on Mikey.

I doubt that. Any decisions were probably jointly taken by him and Haley. But I don't think it was just the coaches. The coaches let the foot off the accelerator a bit. The *team* lost the flow, and after that, regardless of the calls they couldn't bring it around. Which is why we had to do strange things like the reverse with 3 minutes to go, to get things moving again.

[thetruthteller]

I doubt that. Any decisions were probably jointly taken by him and Haley. But I don't think it was just the coaches. The coaches let the foot off the accelerator a bit. The *team* lost the flow, and after that, regardless of the calls they couldn't bring it around. Which is why we had to do strange things like the reverse with 3 minutes to go, to get things moving again.

Sorry I am not buying that. You don't go from 400 yards in the first half to what we did in the second half by accident. Anyone...Including Ray Charles could see that the offense was cut in half, and tried to play Ultra conservative.

[Slapstick]

Again, blame Tomlin for the victory..

[hawaiiansteel]

Again, blame Tomlin for the victory..

yup, we're 1-0.

FIRE TOMLIN!!!

[Eddie Spaghetti]

so you guys are satisfied with pulling out a last second victory over the clowns in the season opener? with a rookie head coach and bryan hoyer at QB on the other side?

tomlin isnt above reproach. and neither are lebeau or haley. that was a disgusting display of football in the 2nd half

[Moonie]

Everyone should be concerned about that second half collapse, irrespective of the win.

[SteelCrazy]

The 2nd half offensive hiccup was a direct result of Haley taking over on offense. What changed from the first half? The hurry up offense. Listen to Ben's post game interview. I'll paraphrase it, Interviewer: "What happened?" ...Ben, "We got away from what we were doing in the 1st." I watched in disbelief as we huddled up time after time. The Browns picked up the tempo and threw a wrench into our defensive machine by going no huddle. I'm not saying the no huddle is better in every situation, but in ours, it is!

[Mr.wizard]

I don't blame tomlin, I blame lebeau, he made no adjustment to the hurry up offense. It was the same thing the eagles did to us in the preseason game.

[Eddie Spaghetti]

and this was an offense missing its two best players for almost all the second half in tate and jordan

pathetic

[BURGH86STEEL]

so you guys are satisfied with pulling out a last second victory over the clowns in the season opener? with a rookie head coach and bryan hoyer at QB on the other side?

tomlin isnt above reproach. and neither are lebeau or haley. that was a disgusting display of football in the 2nd half

Ok, you are free to be unhappy.

[Mr.wizard]

and this was an offense missing its two best players for almost all the second half in tate and jordan

pathetic

exactly what we did in the second half is inexcusable and nobody can tell me its execution, that was a coaching issue they made an adjustment at half time and we didn't.

[feltdizz]

I missed the first half (wifes Bday)... I caught the second half and it was disgusting. 4 pass attempts for a quarter is pathetic. Doing the the exact opposite of what works is a horrible gameplan.

[Slapstick]

Yep. Be unhappy.

[Jigawatts]

I don't blame tomlin, I blame lebeau, he made no adjustment to the hurry up offense. It was the same thing the eagles did to us in the preseason game.

Wrong! I blame Todd Haley for giving up a 24 point lead